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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4797197" data-attributes="member: 58197">The way I see it, RPG art should portray characters in reasonable ways. There's nothing wrong with portraying sexy characters. The problem crops up when characters are portrayed in sexual ways in situations where that makes no sense.I have no problem with a female barbarian in a short leather tunic, with bare, sleekly muscled arms and legs, crouched in a fighting stance. That's sexy but not sexual.Similarly, a succubus in dominatrix gear and a come-hither pose is fine. She's a succubus, that's what they do. It's sexual, but appropriate.Where I start to have problems is when the barbarian is in dominatrix gear and a come-hither pose. (Unless it's depicted as a bedroom scene, which could be really funny; maybe throw in a chained-up male wizard, with the traditional long grey hair and beard, stripped to a loincloth with a terrified look on his face.) That conveys the idea that the barbarian is there, not to be a ferocious warrior hacking through hordes of monsters, but to be a pin-up girl for the male adventurers - or, rather, the male players.</blockquote>